I think Optimus Tactus is only a design, there is no prototype in fact. http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/28/art-lebedev-kills-us-with-optimus-tactus-keyboard-concept/ And if it was, it is very conservative. I insist in the idea of the E-ink, If it is only for writing, a keyboard does not need colors (or even a piano keyboard...).
<http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/28/art-lebedev-kills-us-with-optimus-tactus-keyboard-concept/>There are some restrictions if anybody wants to develope a tactil keyboard, since apple has registered a lot of patents of tactil keyboards. (Jon Stewart has remembered to Apple that great ad of 1984 and advised to look in the mirror). I think such a thing can be developed by IT people on Universities, people who uses open-source software. But for Unicode it is being necessary new developments that allow to explote all its potential. At least, *TeX lets a great implementation of Unicode, since word processors don't work always as we expect from them and keyboard-layouts change a lot from a country to another, from a language distribution to another. 2010/5/5 Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooi...@yahoo.com> > Haha, as I said in another post, the same people who developed the Optimus > keyboard also developed the Tactus keyboard, which is in fact a touch > screen. It would give ample opportunity to implement "strange" character > input. > > Cheerio, > > Wilfred > > --- On *Tue, 4/5/10, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente < > juanfrancisc...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente <juanfrancisc...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex@tug.org> > Date: Tuesday, 4 May, 2010, 6:42 PM > > > Yes, it exists that keyboard as John has shown. > But I think that the next step is different. I think the most useful thing > would be that the keyboard be another screen, but a "tactil"-digital one. I > think that this option would develope all the possibilities of Unicode. > I am not talking of a keyboard in the main screen, like in the Ipad, what > is another great idea. For instance, I work in a netbook. I have thought > lately that these problems with keyboards layouts will be solved if instead > of the physical keyboard, it would be a screen (could be a monitor of > digital-ink like in the Ebook-readers) in which the actual keyboard layout > that set the user would be shown, or perhaps a normal screen that adopts > that role if the laptop/netbook is in "working position" (in other > circumstances could be a two screen gadget for other functions). And new > keyboard-layouts could be developed with special sections like "IPA chars" > or "programming-languages oriented chars". (Only theorizing). > I know this is imagination only, but I think this kind of developments > could make easier and, mainly, more comfortable a lot of work for a lot of > people. > If anybody wants/can afford to try, this idea is free, like beer. > Cheers! > J.F.F. > > 2010/5/4 Wilfred van Rooijen > <wvanrooi...@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=wvanrooi...@yahoo.com> > > > >> Hi all, >> >> This seems to be precisely the issue. Xetex can read and understand all >> unicode characters, but at this time, the only way to communicate with the >> computer is through the keyboard and the mouse. Thus, there will always be >> issues with "special characters". I don't know if it exists, and if not it >> may be interesting to develop, but a keyboard with LCD keys would be nice. >> Then one can switch layout, and the characters on the keys appear >> differently. Of course, there would still be strange side-effects, such as a >> CJK space, which is really a 2-byte space, and xetex does not treat it as a >> regular space (rather, treats it like ~, I suppose). >> >> Cheers, >> Wilfred >> >> > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > -- ----------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad Área de Latín Universidad de Zaragoza Email: jffraileATunizar.es ------------------------------------------
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